futile

Meanings

Adjective Satellite

• producing no result or effect
  • "a futile effort"
• unproductive of success
  • "futile years after her artistic peak"

Adj

• Incapable of producing results, useless; doomed not to be successful; not worth attempting.
• Insignificant; frivolous.

Synonyms

bootless, fruitless, futile, gainless, idle, inane, ineffectual, inefficacious, inutile, otiose, pointless, profitless, purposeless, sleeveless, unavailing, unprofitable, unuseful, unutilizable, useless, vain, void

Antonyms

effective, effectual, fruitful, worthwhile

Related Words

futilely, futilitarian, futility